NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team will discuss plans for the rotorcrafts remaining flight campaign during a virtual media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. The helicopter has flown successfully three times and completed its mission objectives, and engineers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California aim to push the limits of what this experiment can do.
The briefing will stream live on the NASA JPL YouTube channel, the NASA app and the agencys website.
Briefing participants include:
Lori Glaze, director of NASAs Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters
MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at JPL
J. Bob Balaram, Ingenuity chief engineer at JPL
Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist at Caltech
Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance rover deputy project manager at JPL
Members of the media who wish to participate in the briefing by telephone must provide their name and affiliation to Rexana Vizza at rexana.v.vizza@jpl.nasa.gov no later than 10:30 a.m. EDT (7:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. Members of the public may also ask questions on social media during the briefing using #MarsHelicopter.
The Ingenuity technology demonstration is supported by NASAs Science, Aeronautics Research, and Space Technology mission directorates. JPL, managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations for Ingenuity and the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
Follow Ingenuity via the @NASA, @NASAJPL, and @NASAMars Twitter accounts; NASA, NASAJPL and NASAMars Facebook accounts; and the NASA and NASAJPL Instagram accounts.
The Ingenuity press kit is available at: https://go.nasa.gov/ingenuity-press-kit
More information about Ingenuity is available at: https://go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
Media representatives are advised that the Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, will be meeting with business leaders in Saskatchewan to discuss the 2021 Budget and the Government of Canada’s plan to invest in building a recovery that gives all women in Canada the ability to fully participate in our economy.
After the event, there will be a media availability with the Minister and the following individuals:
Her Worship Sandra Masters, Mayor of Regina
Gudie Hutchings, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development
Prabha Mitchell, CEO of Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan
Media will be able to ask questions via teleconference (details included below).
Media will be able to view the news conference via Zoom (registration required, details below).
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Time: 12:45 p.m. (Central Time)
Media who wish to participate by phone can dial in by using the numbers below. Please dial in 15 minutes before the start of the news conference. (Note: only teleconference participants will be able to ask questions.)
Participant dial-in numbers: 1-877-413-4814 or 613-960-7519
Access Code: 9037093#
To view the news conference via Zoom, please send an email to mediacentre@pco-bcp.gc.ca.
Registrations must be completed no later than 10:45 a.m. (Central Time) on Tuesday, April 27.
The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, will meet with Jeanette Jackson, CEO of Burnaby-based Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre, to discuss opportunities for clean tech businesses, both in Canada and abroad.
Event: Minister Ng to meet with Foresight
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Time: 2:15 p.m. (ET) / 11:15 a.m. (PT)
Note: Journalists can register with Youmy Han (youmy.han@international.gc.ca) to receive log-in information.
Youmy Han
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade
343-551-0246
youmy.han@international.gc.ca
Media representatives are advised that the Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, will meet with Indigenous leaders to discuss the 2021 Budget and the Government of Canada’s plan to invest in housing in Northern Saskatchewan.
Following the event, Joan Beatty and Chief Tammy Cook-Searson will join Minister Carr for a media availability.
Media will be able to ask questions via teleconference (details included below).
Media will be able to view the news conference via Zoom (registration required, details below).
Date: Monday, April 26, 2021
Time: 1:30 p.m. (Central Time)
Media who wish to participate by phone can dial-in by using the numbers below. Please dial-in 15 minutes before the start of the news conference. (Note: only teleconference participants will be able to ask questions).
Participant dial-in numbers: 1-877-413-4814 or 613-960-7519
Access Code: 9037093#
To view the news conference via Zoom please send an email to mediacentre@pco-bcp.gc.ca.
Registrations must be completed no later than 11:30 a.m. (Central Time) on Monday, April 26.
Eminent Experts, Scientists, and Technocrats from India and Japan discussed the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and solutions adopted in the field of decarbonisation and promotion of Hydrogen based technologies at the India-Japan Webinar on De-carbonisation: Exploring the Hydrogen Prospects and Innovative Technologies.
His Excellency Mr. Sanjay Kumar Verma, Ambassador of India to Japan, said that 38% of India’s total installed electricity generation is based on renewables. This is about 136 Giga Watts now, and we expect to reach a target of 175 GW by next year and 450GW by 2030. Therefore, he said that hydrogen can play a critical role as a clean fuel in achieving this ambitious goal.
“Japan is the first country to formulate a basic hydrogen strategy. Hydrogen is included in the fifth Energy plan of Japan. The country thus has a good ecosystem for R&D and commercialization, which could be used by the Scientific and Commercial Communities of the two countries. India and Japan have strategic relationships, and this has to be elevated to a strategic partnership enabling sharing of knowledge without any inhibition on Hydrogen and utilization of H2 in future,” he pointed out.
Mr. MIYAMOTO Shingo, Minister, Head of Economic Section, Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, underlined that in japan, companies like Toyota have already operationalised commercially available hydrogen-powered vehicle, and this is much more than a simple electric-powered vehicle.
“India & Japan are in a very good position to work together in the area of producing eco-friendly hydrogen, for example from bio-fuel with a possibility of the two countries cooperating in this area is huge,” he added.
Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), GoI, highlighted India’s ambitious targets of achieving 450 GW power generation by 2030 from renewables.
“This means that India has to look at energy storage options which are green, unlike batteries and Hydrogen certainly is a very good candidate, he said.
He further informed that DST, GoI has initiated several programmes to develop technologies to reduce the cost of hydrogen production, distribution, storage, diversify the feedstock available for hydrogen production, for example, biomass, agricultural waste and so on. DST has supported about 30 projects in last few years related to Hydrogen production, distribution, and storage at a cost of 5 Million US$, looking into new catalysts like producing hydrogen from water splitting.
The webinar jointly organized by the Embassy of India in Japan, Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India along with The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, on 19th April 2021 brought together several experts in the field from the two countries.
Mr OHIRA Eiji Director-General, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Group, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, presented his ideas on NEDO’s approach to realize a hydrogen Society and Green growth strategy through achieving carbon neutrality in 2050.
“Hydrogen has a potential role to play in major sectors in India. Given the scale of future demand, India should be proactive in manufacturing electrolysers to produce green hydrogen. A greater cross-sectoral coordination between the governments can help realize the economy benefits of hydrogen fuel. The key industries need to come together to catalyse decarbonisation allowing risk-sharing and minimizing the burden at the individual company level,” said Dr Vibha Dhawan,Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
Prof. KAZUHIKO Takeuchi, President, The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, Mr. SUGIMOTO Ryuzo, Director of the International Cooperation and Sustainable Infrastructure Office, Ministry of Environment (MoEJ), GoJMs ARAKI Mai, Deputy Director, International Affairs Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), GoJDr P. C. Maithani, Scientist-G, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE), GoIDr Sangita Kasture, Scientist-F, Department of Bio-Technology (DBT), GoI were among the other experts who presented their views on accelerating efforts towards greater collaboration & realizing higher Hydrogen decarbonisation. Dr Usha Dixit, Counsellor (S&T), Embassy of India, Tokyo, GOI, was also present at the event.
